Word: synch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notice that this ole world isn't spinning like it used to? To keep clocks in synch the National Institute of Standards and Technology will add an extra, or leap, second on June 30. Atomic clocks use a length of a second that doesn't represent the long-term slowing trend, so they're a teeny-weeny bit fast. Says NIST spokesman Collier Smith: "We stop the hands of the clock long enough for the world to catch...
...getting his hair cut every two to three weeks. Result: a slimmer, more sophisticated Speaker. But Newt's G.O.P. critics say he also has a slimmed-down agenda to go with his new figure: improving education, fighting drugs, reducing teen pregnancy--all poll-tested issues in synch with middle-of-the-road Americans...
...year-old mother of four. There's the one about the man apparently suffering from ulcerative colitis who did not respond to years of treatment by gastroenterologists but did respond to a therapist who manipulated his skull until his "cranial motions" were back in synch, allowing his digestive "impulses" to begin to flow again...
...weeks Clinton has insisted that any excesses were the fault of misguided staff members at the Democratic National Committee. But the Ickes papers show the President deeply in synch with the whole fevered enterprise. The best proof is his jottings on a proposal put before him by Terry McAuliffe, his chief fund raiser, in January 1995, just as the G.O.P. congressional majority was settling in. McAuliffe, who wanted to reward old party supporters and "energize" prospective ones, suggested that the White House offer jogging, golf or coffee with the President. He also named 10 big Democratic Party supporters who might...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Newt Gingrich and his special-interest allies aren't just out of touch. They're out of step. They're out of synch. They're out of bounds...